Theorizing Practice Redefining Theatre History

Published in association with the Huntington Library, Theorizing Practice is a series of essays by several of the most significant figures in the field present a wide-ranging interrogation of the practice of theatre history studies at the present time, raising questions of history and historiography; the bearing of national, sexual, and racial identity on the canons of theatre history; the limits of print and the history of non-textual forms of performance; the intersections between theatre and other forms of commodification; and even the work of performance at the borders of the human.

Peter Holland is the McMeel Family Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Department of Film, Television and Theater, University of Notre Dame.

W. B. Worthen is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies, University of California, Berkeley.